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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Gash on 02 February 2011, 11:58
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Right guys im looking at doing a bit of smoothing to the boot.
mainly delocking it, because the boot i have on isnt the original one and thus doesnt work with my key.
what i want to know is, iv bought a US Spec truck release button which i was going to use to open the boot.
would it be better to get a us boot actuator to connect the button and the boot together thus allowing me to unlock it that way. or shall i just get a boot popper kit and use that? :)
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I would use a boot popper kit, ebay ones are cheap, just run it off the switch.
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Still thinking how to do mine and am leaning towards fitting a Passat boot opener.
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I used an old actuator from an Escort. Think it was from the central locking. Just needed that, a bit of wire, a button, and a piece of metal strip to hold the actuator in place. Then used an electrical joining block to attach the actuator to the existing rod (well, one that I made after snapping the end off the original trying to get the block on.) Hardest part was running the wire from the boot to the front of the car :)
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/REMOTE-BOOT-TRUNK-RELEASE-KIT-NEW-FITS-MOST-VEHICLES-/250687604734?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3a5e2547fe
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This is something i plan on doing as well as soon as the weather improves, i brought a US spec centre console a few months ago that has a boot opening switch built in and it'd be rude not to utilise it fully.
What would be the best way to wire it up, where should i take a live feed from?
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May as well take it from the central locking pump as its pretty close.
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I want a manual release opening. But wont be having the key lock.
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May as well take it from the central locking pump as its pretty close.
Will not work as you need something to pull the release lever up.
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This is something i plan on doing as well as soon as the weather improves, i brought a US spec centre console a few months ago that has a boot opening switch built in and it'd be rude not to utilise it fully.
What would be the best way to wire it up, where should i take a live feed from?
thats what iv got.... may aswel say it now iv got a US tailgate... but doesnt have the keyhole.... so basically need to know how to open the boot with that button... hense thinking a geniue acuator
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Did you get the mounting bracket and leather handbrake gaiter with your US spec console? Im having a bloody nightmare trying to track the parts down. Ive found a US spec parts catalogue but it doesn't list all the associated parts for some strange reason.
Any one got any ideas where i might be able to source them or at least establish what the part numbers actually are?
http://www.wagenstad.com/index.php?modid=187&page=8-863-60
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didnt get the gaitor no. try german ebay!
got the mounting bracket though yea :)
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any body know how i can connect these universal boot poppers up to the oem switch? been trying to work it out and cnat think how!
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oem switch is just on/off switch, same as what you would get in an aftermarket kit. put live feed to oem switch, output wire to popper, then earth the other popper wire. done.